Word: partially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since last July when Pole-Vault Champion Brian Sternberg, 20, lost control on a trampoline and plunged 14 ft. to a broken neck and complete body paralysis, he has never given up hope of regaining muscle-control. Last week, with partial arm movement restored, he traveled from Seattle's University Hospital to San Francisco to see his first track meet since the accident. "I don't know whether it's going to be fun or punishment," he told reporters. And the news he would go home for good in March also prompted mixed emotions. "I promised myself...
People like Allen have been seeking to practice the rights guaranteed to them under law. The least the nation can do is protect their lives. Several partial solutions are open to the Johnson Administration. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has the power to look into many crimes committed in the cause of segregation, but this power is rarely used and is hampered by southern FBI agents who are often in sympathy with the segregationists. A judicious shift of personnel should be urged on the FBI, and its activities in the South should be increased. This would be one step towards...
...Palais des Nations, where some 200 reassembled officials settled back into their bronze and green leather chairs-as usual, leaving three seats vacant for nonattending France-and prepared for the sixth antiwar jaw session since the disarmament conference got under way in 1962. Buoyed by last August's partial test ban treaty, most Western and neutral negotiators expected action this time and greeted a new five-point program from President Johnson as a hopeful starting point. "The U.S.," said one old disarmament warrior, "is pumping so much adrenalin into this old horse that it may die of a heart...
...Force general, liquid-fueled Atlas missiles "were blowing up like tin cans." But later improvements have raised the success average to about 70% . Of 199 Atlas firings, 137 have been successful. For liquid-fueled Titan I, the score reported by the Air Force is 47 successes, ten partial successes, seven failures. For Titan II, just becoming operational: 19 successes, seven partial successes, one failure. For the solid-fueled, Minuteman: 45 successes, eleven partial successes, nine failures...
...partial solution, the services now send officers who are within a semester of a degree to civilian campuses to live at full pay while pursuing fields from physics to philosophy. The Air Academy sends new graduates on to M.I.T. or Caltech for master's degrees; the Army picks 200 enlisted men a year to attend civilian colleges, pays about three-fourths of the cost. The Navy sends even WAVES off to earn science and engineering degrees, pays four-year costs at 19 colleges and universities...